Heinz Barwich

Heinz Barwich
Barwich at the German Physical Society's 1958 meeting at Karl Marx University
Born	(1911-07-22)22 July 1911 Berlin, German Empire
Died	10 April 1966(1966-04-10) (aged 54) Cologne, West Germany
Education	Tech. U. of Berlin (Ph.D., 1936)
Spouse	Elfi Heinrich ​ (m. 1960)​

Heinz Barwich (22 July 1911 – 10 April 1966) was a German nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he followed the decision of Gustav Hertz, to go to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received the Stalin Prize. He was director of the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Central Institute for Nuclear Research) at Rossendorf near Dresden. For a few years he was director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Soviet Union. In 1964 he defected to the West.